Punch Newspapers
Sections
Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin
The Management of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company on Friday said that it had finalised plans to roll out 90,870 meters to customers in Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti in the first quarter of 2021.
Mr Tayo Adekule, the BEDC head of public affairs told journalists in Benin that the meters, allocated to BEDC by the National Electricity Regulatory Commission would be distributed under the National Mass Metering programme starting from Edo.
He said the metering would cover four BEDC franchise states in phases based on a selected distribution transformers covering 90,870 customers over a period of six months.
Share
The Management of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, on Friday disclosed that its has concluded plans to distribute 90,870 meters to customers in Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti States in the first quarter of 2021.
BEDC Head, Public Affairs, Mr. Tayo Adekunle, who stated this on Friday, in Benin said that the meters, allocated to BEDC by National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) would be distributed under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP), beginning with Edo State.
According to him, the metering would cover the four BEDC franchise states in phases, as already mapped out, adding that it would be based on a selected distribution transformers covering 90,870 customers over a period of six months.
Chairman of the MPH electricity committee, Abdulrauf Taha, told Daily Trust that the residents of the community have had several meetings with KEDCO and NERC, yet they are slammed with outrageous bills of between N40,000 to N250,000 monthly.
Taha said: “These outrageous bills are coming in monthly. We have a situation whereby a one-bedroom apartment is billed N170,000 and a three bedroom is billed N250,000. In fact, the least bill is about N40,000. So we don’t know the criteria they are using and the question is, what happened to the government’s capping systems?”
He described the several meetings with NERC and the disco as fruitless since KEDCO had not implemented any of the recommendations and is yet to be sanctioned by the regulatory agency.
Share
Tired of power outage for the past seven years, hundreds of residents of Mosogar in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State on Monday staged a protest calling on relevant authorities to address the situation ahead of Christmas.
The protesters comprising youths of both sexes and older folks stormed the Mosogar junction of the ever-busy Benin-Warri expressway causing gridlock for several hours.
Armed with placards with messages expressing their grievances, the protesters said efforts to redress the seven-year-old power outage had hit the rocks.
They accused the distribution company, Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) of incompetence and called for the withdrawal of the company’s licence.